Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The academic environment, community, or world.
- n. Academic life.
- n. A place in which instruction is given to students.
- n. A scholar, especially a pedant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The grove and gymnasium near Athens where Plato taught; the Academy; figuratively, any place of similar character.
- n. Hence [lowercase] An academy; a place for philosophic and literary intercourse or instruction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Poetic An academy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the academic world
Etymologies
- From Latin Acadēmīa, the Academy; see academy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“(The term academe seems stilted to me, but maybe that's me.)”
“Cannadine is countering the currently favored view in academe, which is promulgated by a flatulent and often incoherent body of historical and literary scholarship known as colonial discourse theory.”
“I agree that Patricia White having a foot in practice and academe is a very good thing.”
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“He'll need all those qualities, because jumping into academe is much harder than it looks.”
“Via Ron Charles on Twitter, this direct, stat filled condemnation of the ‘publish or peril’ ethic in academe, by Mark Bauerleinin in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and a call for emphasis to be placed on one-on-one interaction and conversation:”
“Traditionally, the response of Egyptologists to "pyramidiots", as Khufu-scorners are known in academe, has been to ensure that their own books are as impregnably boring as possible.”
“As those among them who are useful idiots leave their professorial chairs, due to age, maybe, just maybe, we will all get a little intellectual fresh air in academe, and thus in public life.”
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“Later, in academe, I found similar junk like ‘the root metaphors of the radical humanist paradigm’.”
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“To the extent they used their sinecures in academe to pollute literary study with political dogmatism, I find their actions pernicious in the extreme.”
“This essential incompatiblity between the protocols of the classroom and the imperatives of literature -- defined as particular works read for their immediate literary value -- is probably what most explains the decades-long move in academe away from an emphasis on "literature itself" to an emphasis on literary theory and cultural studies.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘academe’.
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*e?e
Words whose last and third-to-last letters are both "e".
here, eke, were, complete, mete, replete, adhere, where, mere, sphere, austere, aesthete and 99 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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another yet
anneal, copepod, cuckoo, fathead, intone, patter, cabriole, knickknack, boodle, kit, estrange, forebode and 209 more...
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Nouns first attested in Shakespeare
summit, scuffle, critic, bandit, mountaineer, savagery, bedroom, radiance, birthplace, pageantry, courtship, ode and 13 more...
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words that feel academic
ergo, henceforth, praxis, logos, pathos, ethos, verisimilitude, hyperbole, academe, scholar, scholastic, humanities and 9 more...
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Yolanthe's Words
fabricator, academe, deceit, manipulation, persnickety, salience, cybernetics, leprechaun, dodgy, redemption
Tweets
Looking for tweets for academe.
Louises 'Werewolves are not a subject for academe,' she said, 'but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. 'Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them. Species death like this is nothing more than a shift in the aggregate psychic agenda. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 3, 2012